Mon, 20/02/2012 - 20:05 | 
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According to the Firefox 2012 roadmap, Mozilla plans to introduce some major changes and new features this year, including a new default theme called Australis:
Mon, 30/01/2012 - 16:39 | webupd8.org
ownCloud is a free software alternative to some proprietary web services that includes music streaming, file management which supports sharing, calendar, contacts and more:
ownCloud offers the ease-of-use of Dropbox and box.net with a more secure, transparently managed offering. As an open source project ownCloud 3 offers innovative features, a flexible architecture and no vendor lock in.
ownCloud 3 has been released recently with some cool new features, such as:
- Built-in cloud text editor that supports 35 programming languages for syntax highlighting, keyboard shortcuts support, automatic indent and outdent, unstructured / user code folding and live syntax checker (for JavaScript, Coffee and CSS). Editing more advanced file types like .doc and .odt is planned for a future release:
Fri, 27/01/2012 - 14:53 | webupd8.org
beets is a cross-platform command line music tagger and organizer which you can use to "get your music collection right once and for all".
It can improve your music collection metadata by using MusicBrainz, download cover art for all your albums, reorganize your music files, fix filenames and more.
Further more, beets is extensible through plugins which add extra functionality like embedding or extracting album art from files, fetch lyrics for all your songs, clean up tags and and there's even a HTML5 web player (though it's very basic and can't do too much for now).
Mon, 23/01/2012 - 15:37 | webupd8.org
Mendeley is a free to use, cross-platform PDF organizer with some extra features that make document management and research easier:
- Reference manager (generate citations and bibliographies in Microsoft Word, OpenOffice / LibreOffice)
- PDF viewer (can also add annotations, etc.)
- Import and organize PDFs
- Collaborate / share documents
- Backup and cloud sync
The application is basically a library manager for your PDF files that lets you organize and even store your documents in the cloud (without encryption) and can be used from Linux, Windows, Mac, mobile devices or the web. With a free account, you get 500MB of personal storage and another 500MB of shared space and you can also create both public and private groups to easily share documents with friends or colleagues.
Tabbed interface, supports annotations
Thu, 12/01/2012 - 18:31 | webupd8.org
Super Flexible File Synchronizer is a cloud backup and synchronization tool that supports FTP, SSH, WebDAV, Amazon S3, and Google Docs. The application is cross-platform, but only the Linux version is free (though it's proprietary).
Super Flexible File Synchronizer uses ZIP compression and data encryption and comes with multiple synchronization modes, like Standard Copying, Exact Mirror, and SmartTracking.
Probably the most interesting thing about Super Flexible File Synchronizer is the Google Docs support which you can use to easily synchronize your documents from / to your computer, so any changes you make on Google Docs an be synced with your computer as well as the other way around. The application also supports synchronizing files between two Google Docs accounts, or between any of the supported services / protocols.
Mon, 09/01/2012 - 16:32 | webupd8.org
Sublime Text 2 is an excellent TextMate-like text editor that runs on Linux, Windows and Mac OSX.
If you like Sublime Text 2, you'll love Sublime Package Control, a cross-platform package manager that lets you easily discover, install and update various packages (plugins) for Sublime Text 2.
Here are some of the plugins that you can install using Sublime Package Control: GIT, Mercurial or SFTP/FTP support, CSS Less (code folding and nesting for CSS), GoTo Recent, HeX viewer and editor, jQuery snippets pack, Vim / Emacs like modelines, SCSS bundle, Open Terminal, JSLint, PowerShell Utils, LaTeX Tools, HTML5 bundle, Zen Coding and many others.
Thu, 05/01/2012 - 19:44 | webupd8.org
Minutube, a simple application which you can use to download and play YouTube videos without Flash, has reached version 1.7.
Among the most important changes in Minitube 1.7 are:
- Clickable usernames in the playlist (so you can see more videos from a certain user/channel)
- "Manually start playing" option
- "Stop after this video" option
- Window "Float on Top" option
- Ability to skip to the previous video
The new version also supports passing an YouTube URL or even a search query via command line which means you can for instance create an Unity lens that opens videos in Minitube (like the one for VLC), browser extensions, etc.
Wed, 04/01/2012 - 16:24 | webupd8.org
LibreCAD, a 2D CAD drawing tool has reached version 1.0 more than a year of work. LibreCAD, previously known as CADuntu, works natively on Mac OSX, Windows and Linux and is based on the community edition of QCad.
Among the changes between QCad Community Edition and LibreCAD are: up to date Qt4 based user interface (QCAD Community Edition uses Qt3), plug-in system, autosaving and better reading of DXF files. Also, QCAD Community Edition is officially only available for Linux (and QCAD itself is cross-platform, but it's not free), while LibreCAD is cross-platform.
With this release, LibreCAD is finally considered stable, but it still needs a lot of work, so don't expect it to compete with professional applications like AutoCAD. Further more, LibreCAD doesn't come with documentation - it initially included QCAD's documentation but it had to be removed because it wasn't published under GPL.
Mon, 02/01/2012 - 16:44 | webupd8.org
A while back, Clementine music player got Grooveshark and Spotify support and these, among many other new features are finally available in a stable release (1.0). You'll need a Spotify Premium / Grooveshark Anywhere account though.
Besides Spotify and GrooveShark support, the latest Clementine 1.0 also comes with a new global search feature which you can use to search for music and radio (includes your music library, radio streams, Spotify and Grooveshark), Digitally Imported (di.fm) and Sky.fm radio stations, audio CD support and Amazon as an alternate provider for album cover art.
Other changes in Clementine 1.0:
- transcoder options
- improve the organisation of the settings dialog
- album cover art searches now select the best cover automatically instead of the first one
- keyboard shortcuts to navigate between playlist tabs
- options to customise OSD messages that are shown on song changes
- cache lists of streams/friends fetched from Last.fm, di.fm, soma.fm, etc.
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Sat, 24/12/2011 - 14:48 | webupd8.org
0 A.D., a historical real-time strategy game, has reached alpha 8. The new version brings a new civilization: Persian and also, single-player games can finally be saved / restored.
Here are the most important new features in the latest 0 A.D. Alpha 8 "Haxāmaniš":
- a new civilization: Persian, which includes a new building set and new units
- Bartering system: buy and sell resources in exchange for other resources
- single-player games can be saved and restored
- reconnect feature for the multiplayer game: you no longer have to abandon the game if you are disconnected during a multiplayer game
- 45° Field of View
- new music tracks
- new map: Zagros Mountains
Also, the AI and overall game performance were improved. For a complete changelog, see the official announcement.
Here are a couple of videos presenting the new features in 0 A.D. Alpha 8:
